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PRESS RELEASE
December 2, 2025
Reference: Cristina Palabay, KARAPATAN secretary general, 09173162831
KARAPATAN salutes the Filipino people who marched on the streets on November 30, 2025, and calls on the Filipino people to once more take to the streets in their numbers on December 10th, International Human Rights Day, to demand accountability from the Marcos Jr. regime not just for systemic corruption but for grave civil and political rights violations stemming from its fascist and anti-people laws and policies.
The exposés of Marcos Jr. 's foremost role in bureaucratic plunder has shown that both the investigations of the Independent Commission on Infrastructure and the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee are actually designed to gloss over Marcos Jr. and his clique's role in bureaucratic corruption. To assuage the people's anger, lower-ranking bureaucrats linked to anomalous infrastructure projects have been charged and some were arrested.
But Marcos Jr. is feeling the heat of the people's anger and dissatisfaction with his showcase investigations. He has been forced to ease out certain key officials of his regime in a desperate attempt to deflect attention from himself. He has also begun to hit harder on protesters as evidenced by his attempt to sabotage the November 30 anti-corruption rally by enforcing the unconstitutional and martial law-era "no permit-no rally" policy and threatening to charge protesters who call for his resignation with sedition and related offenses.
Fascist terror, already an everyday reality in vast areas of the countryside, is now becoming a staple in urban centers of reactionary power rocked by people's protests. Marcos Jr.'s police forces unleashed their brutality during the September 21 protests by beating up and arbitrarily arresting more than 200 demonstrators and bystanders and causing the deaths of two individuals.
The scaled-up violence is not incidental. It hews with the Marcos Jr. regime's National Action Plan for Unity, Peace and Development (NAP-UPD), a blueprint for heightened repression and authoritarianism. With the NAP-UPD, more extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, and unjust arrests and detention on trumped-up charges of activists, dissenters and other perceived enemies of the state loom in the horizon.
Marcos Jr. is increasingly mobilizing his entire repressive machinery to crack down on the anti-corruption protest movement which has begun reverberating calls for an overhaul of the system. The exposés of corruption have brought to public attention the grave crimes, not just of Marcos Jr., but of his Vice President Sara Duterte and their minions. The people are weary of replacing them with recycled and corrupt traditional politicians who keep dominating the reactionary elections.
The people have shown our defiance by pushing through with the November 30 rally, in the face of threats and intimidation from Marcos Jr.'s minions. Meanwhile, we are further emboldened as our struggle to hold accountable Marcos Jr 's predecessor and fellow fascist Rodrigo Duterte has also gained ground with the International Criminal Court's denial of Duterte’s bid for interim release.
The times are indeed ripe and the people ready to push for meaningful change.
On the 10th of December, the streets will once again swell with undaunted protesters crying: Marcos at Duterte, korap at pasista, panagutin, ikulong!
December 2, 2025
Reference: Cristina Palabay, KARAPATAN secretary general, 09173162831
KARAPATAN Public Information Desk, 09189790580
Rights groups to hold Int’l Human Rights Day protests vs corruption, fascism
Rights groups to hold Int’l Human Rights Day protests vs corruption, fascism
KARAPATAN salutes the Filipino people who marched on the streets on November 30, 2025, and calls on the Filipino people to once more take to the streets in their numbers on December 10th, International Human Rights Day, to demand accountability from the Marcos Jr. regime not just for systemic corruption but for grave civil and political rights violations stemming from its fascist and anti-people laws and policies.
The exposés of Marcos Jr. 's foremost role in bureaucratic plunder has shown that both the investigations of the Independent Commission on Infrastructure and the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee are actually designed to gloss over Marcos Jr. and his clique's role in bureaucratic corruption. To assuage the people's anger, lower-ranking bureaucrats linked to anomalous infrastructure projects have been charged and some were arrested.
But Marcos Jr. is feeling the heat of the people's anger and dissatisfaction with his showcase investigations. He has been forced to ease out certain key officials of his regime in a desperate attempt to deflect attention from himself. He has also begun to hit harder on protesters as evidenced by his attempt to sabotage the November 30 anti-corruption rally by enforcing the unconstitutional and martial law-era "no permit-no rally" policy and threatening to charge protesters who call for his resignation with sedition and related offenses.
Fascist terror, already an everyday reality in vast areas of the countryside, is now becoming a staple in urban centers of reactionary power rocked by people's protests. Marcos Jr.'s police forces unleashed their brutality during the September 21 protests by beating up and arbitrarily arresting more than 200 demonstrators and bystanders and causing the deaths of two individuals.
The scaled-up violence is not incidental. It hews with the Marcos Jr. regime's National Action Plan for Unity, Peace and Development (NAP-UPD), a blueprint for heightened repression and authoritarianism. With the NAP-UPD, more extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, and unjust arrests and detention on trumped-up charges of activists, dissenters and other perceived enemies of the state loom in the horizon.
Marcos Jr. is increasingly mobilizing his entire repressive machinery to crack down on the anti-corruption protest movement which has begun reverberating calls for an overhaul of the system. The exposés of corruption have brought to public attention the grave crimes, not just of Marcos Jr., but of his Vice President Sara Duterte and their minions. The people are weary of replacing them with recycled and corrupt traditional politicians who keep dominating the reactionary elections.
The people have shown our defiance by pushing through with the November 30 rally, in the face of threats and intimidation from Marcos Jr.'s minions. Meanwhile, we are further emboldened as our struggle to hold accountable Marcos Jr 's predecessor and fellow fascist Rodrigo Duterte has also gained ground with the International Criminal Court's denial of Duterte’s bid for interim release.
The times are indeed ripe and the people ready to push for meaningful change.
On the 10th of December, the streets will once again swell with undaunted protesters crying: Marcos at Duterte, korap at pasista, panagutin, ikulong!
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